Digital Health Competencies
Digital Health Competency NMBI has published Digital Health Competency Standards and Requirements for Undergraduate Nursing and Midwifery Education Programmes (First Edition). Digital health is defined as the use of information and communication technologies to improve...
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Continuing Professional Development
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in nursing and midwifery is defined as learning experiences which help maintain and enhance knowledge, skills and competence to provide quality, and safe person-centred care throughout the ca...
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Prescribing Standards
Prescriptive authority: practice standards and guidelines This document was published by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI), and addresses the professional responsibilities of registered nurse prescribers and registered midwife prescribers for their prescrib...
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Previous Consultations
Previous Consultations Public consultations held in 2024 Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives NMBI held a public consultation on our Draft Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives...
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Midwife Registration Programmes
Midwife Registration Programmes: standards and requirements NMBI publishes standards and requirements for education bodies (EBs) and their practice partners involved in the education of midwives in relation to the development, delivery and evaluation of midwife registratio...
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Return to Nursing Practice
Education Return to Nursing Practice Programmes Standards and Requirements The purpose of the return to nursing practice programme is to enable participants to update their theoretical knowledge and clinical skills to practice as competent and professional nurses. The the...
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Reports
Reports RUN ME Research Report Non-clinical Employment as an Indicator of Language Competency in Nursing and Midwifery
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English Language Requirements
English language competence and overseas applicants F rom 2 April 2018, applicants for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland who have qualifications from outside of Ireland must now satisfy the Board that they have the necessary knowledge of English t...
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English Language Requirements
English language competence and overseas applicants F rom 2 April 2018, applicants for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland who have qualifications from outside of Ireland must now satisfy the Board that they have the necessary knowledge of English t...
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Webinar to Launch Standards and Requirements for Graduate Entry Nursing and Digital Health
Webinar to Launch Standards and Requirements for Graduate Entry Nursing and Digital Health Competency On 21 June 2023, we held a webinar to introduce education bodies and practice partner sites to the new standards and requirements for education programmes on graduate entry ...
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Previous Events
Previous Events 2024 Events Education Excellence in Nursing and Midwifery Conference 2023 Events NMBI Series 2023 RUN ME Research Report Webinar NMBI National Student Midwife Debate 2023 Graduate Entry Nursing and Digital Health Competency Webinar...
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Definition & Scope of Midwifery Practice
Definition and Scope of Midwifery Practice Definition of a midwife The Practice Standards for Midwives works with the following definition of a midwife adapted from the International Confederation of Midwives’ (ICM 2017) definition and adopted by NMBI. A midwife is a pe...
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Certifying Documents and Translations
Certifying Documents and Sourcing Translated Documents for Application Process The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) requires overseas applicants to provide certified copies of certain documents and to provide certified English translated versions of documents. ...
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Certifying Documents and Translations
Certifying Documents and Sourcing Translated Documents for Application Process The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) requires overseas applicants to provide certified copies of certain documents and to provide certified English translated versions of documents. ...
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Policy for Programme Approval and Monitoring Processes
Policy for Programme Approval and Monitoring Processes NMBI sets the standards and requirements for registration in any division of the register and specialist nursing and midwifery qualifications. NMBI sets the criteria for the approval of a body seeking to deliver an educ...
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Policy for Programme Approval and Monitoring Processes
Policy for Programme Approval and Monitoring Processes NMBI sets the standards and requirements for registration in any division of the register and specialist nursing and midwifery qualifications. NMBI sets the criteria for the approval of a body seeking to deliver an educa...
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Radiological Procedures (nurse referral)
Nurse Authority to Refer for Radiological Procedures (Standards and Requirements for Education Programmes) This document sets out the educational standards and requirements for nurse authority to refer a person for radiological procedures. The standards and requireme...
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Post-Registration Nursing & Midwifery
Post-registration nursing and midwifery: standards and requirements The purpose of these standards and requirements is to provide guidance for the development of flexible and innovative programmes/units of learning for educational providers for the development of post-regi...
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Expert Witnesses
The Role of the Expert Witness NMBI has published guidance on the Role of the Expert Witness. An expert witness is a person whose level of specialised knowledge or skill in a particular field qualifies them to present their opinion about facts of a complaint to an inquir...
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Approvals: Midwifery Programmes
Midwifery programmes: NMBI standards and requirements NMBI is responsible for the standards and requirements for undergraduate midwife registration programmes. These are designed to provide guidance to education bodies (EBs) and practice partners involved in the education of...
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